Drill 13 · Multiple Choice · Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance
AP African American Studies: Emigration, Colonization, and Black Political Thought — Drill 13 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
Test your knowledge of 19th-century debates over emigration, colonization, and Black political thought with these AP African American Studies practice questions. This AP exam prep drill covers the American Colonization Society, the colonization debate, and thinkers like David Walker, Martin Delany, and Frederick Douglass.
The following summarizes the argument made by Robert Purvis, a prominent free Black abolitionist in Philadelphia, in addresses to antislavery meetings during the late 1850s and 1860. Purvis consistently rejected colonization and emigration proposals, insisting on Black Americans' rightful place as citizens of the United States.
Purvis argued that African Americans were unequivocally American citizens by birth and by the contributions of their forebears to the nation. He rejected the premise, advanced by the American Colonization Society and by some Black nationalists, that African Americans should leave the United States for Liberia or elsewhere. His father was born in the United States, he insisted; his father's father was born in the United States; he himself knew no other country. To accept emigration, Purvis argued, was to accept the proslavery claim that Black Americans had no legitimate place in the nation of their birth — a concession he refused to make.
Adapted from Robert Purvis, public addresses on colonization and citizenship, Philadelphia, late 1850s – 1860.